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Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Beto O'Rourke and several other notable Democrats need to step up their games or they'll be forgotten contenders in 2020.

On the other side, we have the candidates for the Democratic nomination. Lots and lots of and lots of candidates.

I have news for Democratic candidates who are thinking they can glean votes from those who watch Fox News in prime time: Dream on.

It's no surprise that at age 77 Bernie Sanders is trying again in 2020. But a significant difference this time around is that he will not be alone peddling his message of "revolution" and moving the party further toward liberal or progressive positions.

As a media critic, the 2020 political story that speaks loudest to me in these early days of the campaign is the way that all of the Democratic candidates are after a magic mix of media that will help separate them from the pack as Donald Trump did with cable TV and Twitter in 2016.

In the first days of January 1960, Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts declared his candidacy for president, nearly a year before the actual balloting. This year, at least half a dozen hopefuls have already signed on for what promises to be an exhausting and costly Democratic fight.

Kamala Harris, a U.S. senator and former California attorney general known for her rigorous questioning of President Donald Trump’s nominees, has entered the Democratic presidential race. Harris' campaign says it will make its headquarters in Baltimore, with another office in Oakland, California.

Sources familiar with U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris' plans tell The Baltimore Sun that if she runs for president, she'll put her campaign headquarters in Baltimore. The California Democrat is expected to announce her 2020 plans soon. Harris' Senate office declined to discuss her plans.

Senators of both parties disgraced themselves in the Kavanaugh hearings.

Here's how to watch and what to know about Thursday's Senate Judiciary committee hearing on Christine Blasey Ford's sexual misconduct accusations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

While a rising chorus of Democratic leaders are calling for Franken's resignation, Maryland's senators have stayed out of the fray.

As President Trump approaches the end of his first year in office, a world of potential woe awaits him, says Jules Witcover.

Devin Kelley's domestic violence convictions should have stopped him from getting guns, but federal law does nothing to prevent many other violent perpetrators from owning firearms.

We can reasonably expect Russian meddling in the 2018 election campaign. Evidence is clear that Russians are using sophisticated cyber attacks to corrupt the integrity of the U.S. electoral system. This transcends a single election and ultimately strikes at the heart of our democracy.

It's easy to dislike the Washington press corps. But siding with Team Trump as it limits access hurts us all.

As this pneumonia episode demonstrates, Ms. Clinton's real problem isn't her health, but the entirely valid perception that she's dishonest, secretive and exploits "the system" — including the support of the mainstream media — for her benefit.

CHARLOTTE -- Speaking to members of Iowa's influential delegation to the Democratic convention on Wednesday, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley took a shot at several Republican governors while laying out a broad vision for the party that some suspect he hopes to one day lead.

The Maryland Democrat, who this year became the longest-serving woman in congressional history, will lead a program highlighting the record 12 women running this year for Senate.

Backed by Terps Coach Brenda Frese, Cummings looks into prescription drug shortages

Hundreds of drugs have been in short supply at the nation's hospitals and community pharmacies, leaving patients with less effective or more costly substitutes.

WASHINGTON - Members of a Senate panel rebuked federal health and food safety regulators yesterday for their slow intervention in the nation's peanut-borne